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Point of view. That is extremely important. Can we be more transparent about how they conduct that activity . I think the answer has been yes. We are certainly trying to be as you heard say its difficult to do it. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has established a web site which i believe is new for them. They are trying to post opinions there. We are working hard with them to try to find opinions to redact, find ways to redact the opinions and posts them. The Intelligence Community h...

Journalism to do. I talked to glenn green wald. The secretes and when they mean to the the secrets and what they meantime to the nsa. And we begin with that mining disaster in turkey. The worst in the countrys history. Here is the latest. 274 confirmed dead. Others still missing. There were proces protests aftee president visited the mine. The mine is located in the western town of soma. Andrew simmons has this report. What was a rescue operation has now become a long running procession. Carryin...

Perspective of our operations officers and from the perspective of our analysts and i was most interested in knowing that they were okay from the perspective of the director of ota who you know and you and i both have Great Respect for. Lets go down the names. Robert trujillo was and is the number three in the office of the director of national intelligence. He represents the dni and deputies views. Alan p. Know was the Intelligence Officer for the middle east. He was at that deputies meeting. M...

Fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authorities they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our National Security. The bill passed by the house last month would make some significant changes to the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. Among other provisions, the bill would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the N...

Back in the United States. It has been almost a year since his first revelations on the National Security agency. He is out the new book, no place to hide Edward Snowden, the nsa and the u. S. Surveillance state. The latest disclosures may surprise you. Did you know the National Security agency is not only intercepting emails and phone calls, but the regular mail, too . Cisco ships it to that person. The nsa physically intercepts the package, takes it from fedex or the u. S. Mail service, brings...

In texas, and its a long and tangled tale. You can read about it in the book. But its really astonishing that schreiber, the former Surgeon General of the third reich, was living in texas. But as i said, the cold war was heating up, and this was the threat. The threat was that the soviets, who, bill the way, had their own program of german scientist, they got a lot of rocket scientists, but unlike our program, we sort of put the german scientists on pedestals. Pedestals and treated them with gre...

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Challenges, facing us today in this very different world. He said, americas leadership and prestige depend not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interest of world peace and human betterment. Throughout americas adventure in free government, such basic purposes had been to keep the peace, to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among peoples and among nations. To strive for...

Further ensuring that individuals privacy isnt properly protected without sacrificing operational effectiveness. To that end, we support the usa freedom act as an effective means of addressing the concerns that have been raised about the impact of our activities while preserving the authorities we need for National Security. We are urge this committee to give the house bill serious consideration as expeditiously as possible, consistent with this committees elaborations. We are ready to work with...

Meet to receive testimony and discuss the legislation passed by the house of representatives on may 22 two reform the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. That legislation, which is called the usa freedom act, was approved last month by the two committees of jurisdiction in the house, the house judiciary committee, and the house permitted select committee on intelligence. After amendments on the house floor, the ale was passed by a vote of the bill was passed 121, and that303 is about three to...